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...money, and writes to his father for more, pretending to be hard at work in Bourges. Through the clumsiness of Crispin, by whom the letter was to be delivered, Lisidor's suspicions are aroused; for Crispin lost the real letter and, being afraid of his master, prepared a poor imitation of it, giving some lame excuses for strange lapses in his recollections of Bourges...
...line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river's master, is wonderfully interesting, and loses no interest in the telling...
...break at the finish, the fifth and sixth for five or six miles with a break of about half a mile, the seventh for three or four miles with no break. The eighth will be a hare and hound run for which prizes will be given. The hares and master of the hounds will be appointed later. If enough enthusiasm is shown two extra hare and hound runs will be held in December, for which cups will be given as prizes...
...print room are now exposed in the wall cases a series of prints from works of the Flemish School in the time of Rubens, which illustrate the transition from the primitive to the modern methods of engraving that was wrought under the influence of the great Flemish master. The engravers represented are: Suavius, Coet, Galle, Goltzius, Swanenburg, Stock, Matham, Muller, Soutman, Vorsterman, Pontius, and Goudt...
...Everett was born in Brunswick, Maine, on June 19, 1829. In 1850 he received his degree of A. B. from Bowdoin College, and three years later his master's degree. He was made S. T. D. (Bowdoin) in 1870, L.L.D. (Bowdoin) in 1894, and S.T.D. (Harvard) in 1874. For the four years following 1853 he was librarian and professor of modern languages at Bowdoin from 1855 to 1857. At that time he came to the Harvard Divinity School, and spent two years in study. In 1859 he was ordained at Bangor to his first and only parish. The Independent Congregational...